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[/bThe short of it is that everything is suchness and neither inherently good nor bad, but everyone is heir to his/her karma. So if our actions are driven by selfish intention, the consequences will follow accordingly.] I think we're pretty much on same page here. I think the viewpoint we're talkin...

asking a zen person this will get a reply such as: "that's just zen. all things are one, non dual, so sleeping with women is zen, so is beating people up Would anyone care to address this point head on? It's an ubiquitous attitude among American followers of Zen, and I've heard a lot of things in t...

i don't doubt that many of these masters deeply understood buddhism and possibly were even enlightened. i really dig zen and have read a LOT of zen literature, from tang dynasty masters works to dogen all the way up to shunryu suzuki and dt suzuki. i have trained zen at a zen temple and gone to ret...

It is unusual for just how sloppily researched it is, but it's hardly unique for all its distortions and outright misrepresentations.
I suppose it's a good thing that the lecturer is so full of himself and and obviously doesn't expect to be taken seriously.

[by that, I refer to 'countries where there is enough peace in general that one can access enough calm in meditation Yes, I see what you mean now. The Buddha said we are fortunate enough to be born as human beings and not in the realm of animals, hell, or angry spirits. I might add having got that ...

edwhys211 wrote:I find Buddhism and all Asian religions and cultural subjects interesting, but I am looking for a secular/purely philosophical religion. In Daoism, is there rebirth/karma, or is daoism just more of a philosophy?

It's pretty much the conventional wisdom common to all schools when it comes rebirth, karma and sitting practice (meditation). In terms of practice, it does have esoteric rituals such as mantra recitation not found in some other schools. It also differs from some other schools, though yet other trad...

"Is that a Mahayana Sutra ? I haven't read anything yet about the Buddha recommending punishments for people in the Nikayas". Have you never, in your reading of the Nikayas, come across examples of punishment similar to that set forth for Channa in the Buddha's final exhortation? That's not what I'...